Shelfmark
MS 371
Main entry--corporate name
Title
Collection of statutes relating to the University of Cambridge. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge, England? between circa 1700 and 1770.
Physical description
1 item (106 leaves) : paper ; 30 x 25 cm.
Note
Title devised by cataloguer. Caption title given at the head of the contents list is: Variæ lectiones in stat. vet. Volume referred to in a memorandum on the front endpaper as a 'Collection of statutes'.
Note
Place and date of production inferred from style of handwriting and provenance information.
Note
The 33 leaves of the volume bearing text have been foliated in a contemporary hand.
Note
Written in black ink italic hand. Ruled in pencil.
Note
The scribe may be J. Smith of King's College Cambridge, as the hand is close to the ownership inscription on the front endpaper. A further inscription on the front endpaper notes that numbers 70, 78 and 85 in the collection have been misplaced, and that they were copied from the 'Proctor's books'.
Note
The first leaf bears a list of contents, written in the same hand as the donation inscription by Edward Betham.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on inside front board.
Note
Inscription on inside front board: Liber collegii B.M. de Etona D.D. Edu. Betham socius. 1773. (i.e. given to Eton College by Edward Betham (1709-1783), Fellow of Eton College from 1771).
Binding
Contemporary mid brown reverse calf; blind tooled frames of double fillet and swag roll, with large decorative stamps at each corner; blind tooled decorative roll on board edges; five raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Subject
Statutes England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Betham, Edward, 1709 - 1783 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge
Identifier
B49294